Online Movie: Simiyu Samurai

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From Nairobi Now’s friend Rachid:

I want to recommend a wonderful short film my good friend Robbie Bresson directs that is online at www.simiyusamurai.com.  A tale of a young Kenyan who is orphaned by the tsunami in Japan, he returns home to live with his grandmother and experiences the adventure of a karate kid in Kenya.  check it out.

The project is an ingenious attempt at financing film via sms/mpesa.  Voters can choose via their phones to vote on a scenario they would like to see in part 2.  thus funding the next part of the film. Each text (you have to be in Kenya for it to count) costs 50 or 60 shillings of which 20 goes to the production of part 2.
Enjoy!

If you are an artist trying to fund your next project, we want to hear from you! Send us some information via email or facebook and we’ll repost it!

Concert/Charity: The Great PnP Blast Concert, Sep 30 2011 @ Alliance Francaise

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THE GREAT PnP BLAST CONCERT!!!
30th September 2011 at Alliance Francaise Gardens Nairobi
From 7pm to 10pm
ENTRY: 1 packet of Pads and or Panties… (Also available the entrance)

The main Artiste perfoming will be Iddi Achieng with the support of musicians Makadem, Asali, Judith Bwire, peter young, kevo, and Jarta dancers

THE IDDI ACHIENG TRUST (TIAT) is a community focused organization whose goal since inception in 2008 is working together with marginalized communities to realize positive developmental change .Our current programs whose focus is the girl child under the ‘Ka Dana Education Initiative’ seeks to ensure steady class attendance and retention through provision of sanitary towels and panties to rural primary school girls as an entry point to discuss Reproductive Health Education. Hence the title of the concert….(Panties and Pads)

THE IDDI ACHIENG TRUST was founded by musician, actress and social worker, IDDI ACHIENG who has through the Trust secured 8,068 panties from a campaign called “Panties with Purpose” run by an online shop called MARIDADI.co.ke.
Initiated by Maridadi.co.ke, PANTIES WITH PURPOSE is the largest recent global campaign to help keep girls in school. This is because underprivileged school girls in Kenya miss up to 40 school days in a year due to their menstrual cycle (UNICEF 2005) as they do not have access to proper sanitary pads or underwear. It was launched earlier this year to collect undergarments for underprivileged girls. More than 40 cities were involved and the total number of panties collected to date has exceeded 20,000. So far 8,000 have been distributed. Maridadi.co.ke believes that change begins with basics and that human dignity must be upheld even in the smallest places which are not seen on maps, such as schools, classrooms, playgrounds, homes, offices and work places. It believes that human dignity is a basic right and has partnered with the Iddi Achieng Trust to bring dignity to girls who live, work and play in the smallest places.

The goal is to distribute the pads and panties to 20 targeted primary schools with a total of 2,017@4per girl in Alego South, Karemo Division, Bar Ongong’o Zone, Siaya County. The Nairobi concert purposes to raise sanitary protection to match these panties through the unifying factor of music. The event will also be graced by GoK representatives, Invited Development Partners, Friends of TIAT, opinion shapers and fans and will also be the main launch of TIAT

Out of Town: Volcano Explosion Dance Hike, Oct 2 2011 @ Mount Longonot

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The Volcano Explosion Dance Hike is a Social Event organized to encourage the continuation of a healthy lifestyle and providing a magnificent set up for an original dance excursion.

Magic Mike is organizing this event so you can all have a chance to meet and mingle while enjoying spectacular landscapes, exercising, and of course, to top it all, enjoying our love for dancing!  Magic Mike is introducing a new coreography, “the Volcano Explosion”

WHAT: Volcano Dance Explosion Hike.
WHY: To meet nice people, exercise, healthy entertainment, dance.
WHERE: Mount Longonot

THE PLAN:
DATE: 2 October 2011,
We meet in Nairobi and carpool or at Mount Longonot base at the following times:
NAIROBI:  7.00am
MT LONGONOT: 8.30 am

We hike to the top, where we enjoy the scenery, have a picnic/snack. We learn the volcanic dance.

WHAT TO BRING: Good hiking or sport shoes. Plenty of water. Your own picnic basket.  Sunscreen. Lots of energy for hiking and dance!!

Please note:
KWS/Mount Longonot Park Fees:
Adults Kenyan Citizen: 200 KSH, East African Resident (present passport or alien card) 500 KSH, Foreigners (non-residents) 20 USD.
Children Kenyan 100 KSH, Resident 250 KSH, Foreigner 10 USD.

Please do not forget your ID/Passport, or KWS will charge you the foreigner fees!

If you are interested to attend, please CONFIRM by SATURDAY the 24th. Let us know if you are coming on your own vehicle or you will be willing to give a ride to someone else.

Please RSVP to 0732339858/0721339858
Before 24th Sept 2011.

Magic Mike
www.magicmikesalsa.com

Exhibit: On Red Ground – by Roy Pickering, Oct 1 – 30 2011 @ National Museum

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“On Red Ground’ 1st – 30th October
Roy Pickering is based in the English midlands and has been a frequent visitor to Kenya for over twenty five years. His paintings of his native Nottinghamshire emerge out of a close connection with the landscape and how it has been shaped by human intervention. In 2010 Roy Pickering spent several weeks in Kenya creating this exciting new series of mixed media paintings on aluminium and paper. Using rags and sticks to paint with as well as paint brushes these works also incorporate the red oxide soil of the land being depicted. The layered accumulation of marks simultaneously reveal and conceal in an archaeology of time and place. Often the resulting works capture a sense of moving through the landscape; a succession of passing glimpses and differing viewpoints.
Roy Pickering has exhibited widely, most recently at the ‘Gallery in Cork Street’, London in 2010, and as a contributor to the innovative mixed exhibition ‘Earth Critical’ at Alba la Romaine’ in France earlier this year.
This is his first exhibition in Kenya.
For more information contact : Nairobi National  Museum. www.museums.or.ke
Gallery opening times : 8.30am to 5.30pm

ROCKTOBER Battle of the Bands, Oct 2 2011 @ Carnivore

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Rock bands go head to head. Featuring opening acts by Murfys FlaW, M2O
& Simply Tomas

ONLY 1 REQUIREMENT: ” Market – Friendly sound” whatever that means…
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ENTRANCE:
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KSHS 300 / – ADVANCE (LIMITED TICKETS!!)
KSHS 500 / – AT THE GATE

Get ADVANCE Tickets at: CARNIVORE SIMBA SALOON, TAMAMBO – THE MALL WESTLANDS, Your FAV BAND or Call: 0723 243 983

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PRIZE: SHARE THE LOOT [ RATIO 3:2:1 ] ——-

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CONFIRMED BANDS: so far
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1. Crystal Axis
2. PLG – Parking Lot Grass
3. M2O – Music To Overdrive
4. Lust of a dying breed.
5. Simply Tomas
6. Seismic
7. Perfect Dysfunctionality
8. In oath
9. ROA – Rock of Ages
10. Dove Slimme
11. Murfys Flaw – Featuring
12. LYT – Last Years Tragedy
13. City of angels

Do you have a band? Let us know… Spread the word.

::New Bands are encouraged to register & Participate. How? Call or Email the Organizers – Simply Tomas || Amos { tom@m2o.co.ke | 0723 243 983 | 0721 359 017 }. Upcoming bands should also send their contacts & a brief bio to info@rocksocietyofkenya.org